Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a old " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Surely it did n't hurt you to spare a few minutes for an old man ? ’ |
| 2 | Here was the scandal seen through the eyes of an old man , its central figure , but now powerless , toothless and thoughtless ; easily tired , and probably over-cautioned on the dangers of speaking in courtrooms . |
| 3 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 4 | He used the complete gamut of his voice , from a growl like a dog warning its master that it has a sore foot to a high , exalted monotone which he kept for perorations ; and when he was using the words of an Old Testament lament , Isaiah or Zephaniah , to make a piteous effect , he had been known to put his head back and yowl like a tom-cat . |
| 5 | I well remember the words of an old foreman who said to me , Son , even if you have the talent and ability to take you to the top , there is still no guarantee that you will ever get there , or even half way . |
| 6 | Both the sun and the pale moon were in the sky above her , and she was , in the words of an old adept , ‘ running without running , moving without motion ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ MARRY in May and rue the day ’ run the words of an old saying . |
| 8 | He was fed and sheltered by the Penderel family , spending a day hidden in the branches of an old oak tree with one of his trusted officers , William Careless . |
| 9 | She skirted its edge and at last spotted a possible entry , finding a stick to whack at the jagged branches of an old dogrose . |
| 10 | He thought that here and there in the slaves he could detect traces of an old lineage . |
| 11 | It attracted everyone from stunt flying professionals to kids with an old plastic carrier bag and a piece of string . |
| 12 | Trained as a painter and textile designer , she began taking pictures with an old Instamatic . |
| 13 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 14 | Mr. Crowther had his offices in an old house farther down the High Street on the other side , and in five minutes he and Sara and Matthew had walked down and were standing outside the big black door of Moorlake House . |
| 15 | New ways of printing make unforeseen demands upon an old face , while at the same time giving the typographer scope to design problems away . |
| 16 | It was like a small pinnacle in Pandemonium , dark and hot , and the two squatting Sikhs who rolled their white eyeballs and flashed their teeth in her direction , poking with steel rods at the molten metal for no discernible purpose , looked just like demons on an old fresco . |
| 17 | Conscious that the fat woman had seated herself on a stack of biscuit tins and was listening avidly , Joe said ‘ Er , I want to take some groceries to an old lady . |
| 18 | MR K. Bailey , of Shipley , West Yorkshire , had music running through his head when he sent me a ‘ well done ’ letter , for he attached a verse he 'd composed especially to mark my 40th anniversary and he told me to sing his words to an old song named Marjie … |
| 19 | The Prince had loved children , had been very kind to them , and Sally-Anne had been delighted to see him gravely encourage two four-year-old boys , the twin sons of an old friend , to race pieces of bread , butter and jam up and down his expensively trousered leg . |
| 20 | For a start I think we can discount Bavin 's Bank despite the similarity with the Bavents and the fact that until the early part of this century the foundations of an old building were visible , the reason being that among the Whornes title deeds , Bavins and its adjacent lands are mentioned separately with Langridge . |
| 21 | He had just published in the New English Weekly ( 28 November ) a poem called ‘ Lines for an Old Man ’ ( to which he added a couplet when it was included in Collected Poems ) . |
| 22 | A gradual reversal of the parent/child roles may have to be adjusted to , as the elderly parent moves further on into old age and becomes more dependent in every way , and sometimes the inner fears and insecurities of an old person express themselves in jealousy , possessiveness and resentment of the daughter 's contacts with other family members or friends , which can create many embarrassing situations , and the need for small deceptions to keep the peace . |
| 23 | Ayodhya 's Babri mosque was built on the ruins of an old Hindu temple during the Moghul invasions of the late 16th century . |
| 24 | And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct . |
| 25 | The farm has nine acres of land , including the ruins of an old British indigo factory — a long redbrick wall with trees and bushes growing on the old factory floor , weeds climbing along the bricks . |
| 26 | On the way , the ruins of an old nunnery can be seen on the left . |
| 27 | Most moving were the forlorn-looking ruins of an old chapel and crofts . |
| 28 | We were n't far away from the ruins of an old settlement , abandoned at the time of the dreadful Clearances by islanders who , driven by impossible conditions , bravely set out for the unknown territories of Canada to start their lives afresh . |
| 29 | Beaucens , which is almost exactly facing Saint-Savin on this eastern slope , though at a lesser altitude , has the ideally romantic ruins of an old towered castle plus keep , where the local chieftains , the viscounts of Lavedan , lived in the days of their prosperity . |
| 30 | A delightful anchorage guarded by a Byzantine tower , the ruins of an old fort built by the Knights of St John , a Roman theatre , the skeleton of a hotel which was never built , and a small village . |